Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2021

Wärtsilä Finland, the energy companies Vaasan Sähkö and EPV Energia, and the City of Vaasa, Finland have signed a letter of intent to cooperate in a project aimed at utilizing emissions-free hydrogen in power generation, industry and transportation applications.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Phase 1: Renewable energy. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Neste Oil, developer of the NExBTL process for renewable diesel, and agritrader Raisioagro have launched a research project to investigate the potential of straw as a raw material for producing NExBTL renewable diesel via Neste’s microbial oil technology. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. We need breakthrough innovations and continued focus on research and technology development in order to provide cost-efficient and value-creating solutions for the future.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Its state-of-the-art product and process technologies complement our metals refining and cathode precursor production facility in Finland as well as our world-class R&D and pioneering battery recycling activities in Belgium. Their number is expected to increase to 400 by the end of 2023, along with the plant's future capacity expansion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Full-scale engine tests have been recently carried out in Wärtsilä’s engine laboratory in Vaasa, Finland, to assess the optimum engine parameters for running on these fuels. These are milestone moments in Wärtsilä’s transition to future fuels. Hydrogen and ammonia contain no carbon; hence, combustion releases no CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. coli bacteria. This research was funded by a grant from the European Research Council. Pauli Kallio, András Pásztor, Kati Thiel, M.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Neste Oil has received an ISCC ( International Sustainability & Carbon Certification ) certificate for the NExBTL renewable diesel produced at the company’s Porvoo refinery in Finland. —Jarmo Honkamaa, Neste Oil’s Deputy CEO and Executive Vice President, Renewable Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Neste Oil, the world’s largest producer of premium-quality renewable fuels, is working with DONG Energy, one of the leading energy groups in Northern Europe, to develop an integrated process to produce renewable diesel and aviation fuel derived from agricultural residues. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Neste Oil celebrated the grand opening of its NExBTL renewable diesel refinery in the Port of Rotterdam. The refinery has an annual production capacity of 800,000 metric tons or 1 billion liters (264 million gallons US) of renewable diesel and cost around €670 million (US$873 million) to build.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A three-year biofuel trial organized by Neste Oil, Helsinki Region Transport (HSL), and Proventia has recently been completed, and the results have shown that Neste Oil’s NExBTL renewable diesel can significantly reduce local emissions that have a direct impact on urban air quality. From 2008 onwards, some ran on 100% NExBTL.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The Council members also requested further examination by the European Commission on instruments and measures for a comprehensive and technology-neutral approach to reduce emissions and increase energy efficiency in transport, for electric transportation and for the use of renewable energy sources in transport after 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2022

These hydrogen tests reinforce the viability of the internal combustion engine as a future-proof technology that plays a key role in decarbonizing the power industry. Our engines already have the flexibility for both balancing the input of renewables into the power system, and baseload generation with a continuously increasing range of fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The Member States will provide up to €5.2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Neste Oil celebrated the official opening of Europe’s first pilot plant for producing microbial oil from waste and residues at its site in Porvoo, Finland. Microbial oil produced from industrial and agricultural residues such as straw represents one of the most promising future raw materials for NExBTL renewable diesel, the company said.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

Preem’s objective is to produce three million cubic meters (793 million gallons US) of renewable fuel yearly by 2030, which would account for the bulk of the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions in the Swedish transport sector. Vattenfall can provide hydrogen gas required for the production of drop-in biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Umicore has signed a long-term agreement with Finland-based Terrafame Ltd. This agreement will cover a substantial part of the future nickel requirements of Umicore’s cathode materials plant in Poland. for the supply of low-carbon, sustainable high-grade nickel sulfate.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2020

Low-emission fuels such as Neste MY Renewable Diesel are among these, but we need to look at other solutions as well, no matter how small. The Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT, then analyzed the data, after which HERE and PTV algorithms were used to scale and study the data further. —Mika Hyötyläinen.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

Sweden-based Preem has developed a renewable diesel from tall oil in a process that first esterifies the tall oil through the addition of methanol, then distills the tall oil is distilled in a vacuum to separate the raw tall diesel from the tall oil pitch. Neste Oil aims to use significant quantities of tall oil pitch in the future.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2009

Renewable energy technologies could generate 40% of the world’s electricity by 2050, according to research presented at the International Scientific Congress “Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions”. More specifically, Germany has more than doubled its share of renewable energy since 2000. Professor Petersen.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2016

The initiative has been driven by the requirement for the aviation industry to work towards a sustainable, low-carbon future. We anticipate that this will increase interest and demand, as well as contributing to a sustainable biofuel future for the aviation sector. Avinor will also support Air BP in its assessment of market demand.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2019

With nuclear power facing an uncertain future in many countries, the world risks a steep decline in its use in advanced economies that could result in billions of tonnes of additional carbon emissions, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. Policy makers hold the key to nuclear power’s future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2021

Neste is piloting its first electric vehicle charging service targeted to logistics companies in Finland. at their site in the Konala area in Helsinki, Finland. The pilot project supports Neste’s and Niemi’s climate strategies and helps Niemi, the leading moving and logistics company in Finland, to reduce its climate emissions.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2016

Pöyry Forest Industry Oy in Finland, noted that: The magnitude of the recovery process is often not fully appreciated. Since black liquor is derived from wood, it is the most important renewable bio-fuel, particularly in Sweden and Finland. tons of black liquor dry solids. Vakkilainnen, from. Globally over 1.3 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2010

UPM, one of the world’s leading forest products groups, recently began an official procedure for an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for a second-generation biofuels plant in Lappeenranta, Finland. The main end products of the plant would be renewable diesel, and bio- gasoline, kerosene and naphtha. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

The event is scheduled to be held from January 10 to 12, 2024 and the theme is Gateway to the Future. Semiconductors, green hydrogen, renewable energy, electronics, MSMEs, and electric mobility are some of the focus areas for the summit. We will invest in the future. This will lead to 1.7 times more production and 2.7

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

This basic concept is in line with the fundamental approach (CO 2 + water + renewable energy → drop-in fuels) being taken by Audi (a member of the Volkswagen Group) in its e-fuels initiatives. Neste Oil Corporation, Finland. Earlier post.). Horizon 2020 Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs). Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze, Italy.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Neste Oil’s and Stora Enso’s joint venture, NSE Biofuels Oy ( earlier post ), will begin environmental impact assessments for a commercial-scale biomass-to-liquids (BTL)biorefinery at Porvoo and at Imatra in Finland. Trial runs will continue at the Varkaus facility until next year at least.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Issues covered in the briefing include emissions, air pollution, noise and renewable energy and the impact of transport on ecosystems and biodiversity. The share of renewable energy in transport in the EU rose from 6.7% Three Member States (Austria, Finland and Sweden) have already reached the 10 % goal. in 2015 to 7.1%

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Driivz

APRIL 3, 2024

Energy Management – optimal EV charging through advanced algorithms, smart grid access, use of local renewables, and demand-side response. states offer tax incentives for purchase and operation of EVs and use of renewable energy to power them. EV Charging Billing – monetization of EV charging networks via billing and settlement.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

Portfolio upgrades, enhancing efficiency, increasing renewable energy purchases, reducing throughput and sales of fossil refinery products, and increasing the share of recycled and sustainable feedstocks will be the key levers in achieving these targets. The company can build on a strong position.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However, electric vehicles basically are emission-free at least when they are powered by electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, etc. The batteries in the future will be produced in significantly larger production units. The result is a total of GHG emissions from an NCM 111 battery of 73 kg CO2e/kWh.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Solar geoengineering could be a “painkiller” for the planet—not a substitute for curbing emissions, but a balm that makes life on Earth more bearable in a sweltering future. (Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 10, 2024

Stephen Cass: Hello and welcome to Fixing the Future, an IEEE Spectrum podcast, where we look at concrete solutions to some big problems. Hakola: Well, of course, EU is developing the regulations all the time, so there might come new enforcements in the future. And well, in Finland, the forest industry has typically been quite strong.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Second, the use of renewable electricity. Production at every single battery materials plant that we’re starting up will be powered by 100% renewable energy sources from day one. This is the case at our gigafactory in Europe, which relies on wind energy, and it’s also what we plan for our soon-to-come plant in Canada.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Second, the use of renewable electricity. Production at every single battery materials plant that we’re starting up will be powered by 100% renewable energy sources from day one. This is the case at our gigafactory in Europe, which relies on wind energy, and it’s also what we plan for our soon-to-come plant in Canada.

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